Questions tagged [ssml]

Speech Synthesis Markup Language(SSML) is a web standard for generating synthetic speech for voice-impaired users or device audio output.

SSML can be used to create software which integrates with voice services such as Skype to provide text-to-speech capabilities.

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XmlException: Character '=' may not be contained within a name

SAPI5 in combination with the flag SVSFIsXML allows inserting custom tags, for example in such a form: Speak this text This tag would be recognized as FragList->State.eAction == SPVA_ParseUnknownTag However, when I use the…
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Alexa saying "minute" (the time) wrong as minute(very small)

Alexa is saying minute wrong, how can I make her say minute as in 60 seconds when replying to my Skill ? At the moment she says "as of 5 minutes ago" 5 very small objects haha This is my skill { "interactionModel": { "languageModel": { …
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SSML Confusion - Alexa Lambda

I am a complete novice to building Alexa skills. I have managed to build and send a skill live, but now want to improve it. I primarily want to change the way Alexa speaks my code... I don't understand how to implement SSML into my Node.js…
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how to use prosody and interpret together (SSML)

I have a problem how to use in Twilio prosody and interpretAs code combined. As 2 speparate tags this works but encapsulation don't. Do you have any ideas how to do this slow peace and interpret as ? SsmlSayAs sayContactPhone = new…
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Twilio SSML Using Runtime Functions

I am trying to add SSML text using Say-verbs in Twilio Runtime functions. let twiml = new Twilio.twiml.VoiceResponse(); twiml.say('Hello World'); Above code results in encoded Text when rendered. Is there a way to…
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List of SSML tags and features supported with Google Actions

I'm trying to write a function that will generate a script read with SSML tags, and with elements of the script being inserted dynamically based on data pulled from the Twitter API. I can't find a list of SSML tags and features that Actions on…
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SSML code in Curl text to speech IBM Watson

I am trying to use IBM Watson Text to Speech because I need to get some audio file to insert in a video but I am not a developer, at all! Looking a the scarce tutorial provided on IBM cloud website, I figured out how to get the audio file using…
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Play audio after intent is invoked for Google Action

I need help understanding the way SSML works for google action. I would like a sound to be played when my intent is called something like so: function playAudio(assistant) { let text_to_speech = '' + 'I can play a sound' …
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Strage behaviour with texttospeech google api

I'm starting to know how to use google APIs modifying the python example code of the texttospeech API I found an issue, when I use ssml languaje in a txt file to pass the text to the API the resultant mp3 audio changed the character 'é' with the…
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How to construct a sentence with "Hm" in SSML

How can I construct word "hm" with Alexa SSML? I have tried this, but it is not completely natural. Please advice.

Hm.

You are right.
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Google Actions sdk not playing audio using ssml

I have tried to play small size audio using SSML, but the below code throws the error " expected_inputs[0].input_prompt.rich_initial_prompt.items[0].simple_response: 'display_text' must be set or 'ssml' must have a valid display rendering. " // See…
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How to use XSLT to convert a MathML file to SSML

I want to convert a MathML to speech. For this, I proposed to use XSLT which can convert an XML file to a text file which I can use to make an SSML file or an HTML file. So how am I supposed to do that?
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I'm having problems playing audio in DialogFlow(api.ai) with SSML from webhook written in python

In my python webhook, I am returning JSON response as- { "speech":"Speak this", "ssml": , "displayText": "Expected text", "contextOut": [], "source": "" …
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Can you implement SSML globally in Dialogflow?

Is there a way to implement a SSML elements to all your intents within a Dialogflow agent? More specifically, I want to add a prosody rate of 108% globally but I don't want to have to go through 5 pages of intents and follow-up intents manually…
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What is the meaning of percentage change in the SSML prosody pitch attribute?

The SSML prosody element can take a value representing a relative change, which may be a percentage value (e.g. +50% or -30%). What should that be a percentage of? Is it the Hz value of the current pitch (so an octave interval (i.e. +12st) is the…
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